Youth Help Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873116348
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
St Petersburg, FL, USA
Phone
7865904305
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$66,785
Expenses
$58,577
Assets
$12,265
Liabilities
$33,299

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rufus W Ewing (Director / President / Treasurer)
  • Dr Stuart Ewing (Director / Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Rufus W Ewing (Director / President / Treasurer)
  • Dr Stuart Ewing (Director / Vice President)
  • Dr Dawn Perry-Ewing (Director / Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Foundation is committed to supporting and empowering vulnerable children and youth by enabling equitable access to Health, Education, and Literacy Programs (HELP). Our operational model focuses on providing grant funding to other nonprofit and civil society organizations that deliver HELP-aligned programs and educational resources.

What it reported doing in 2025

Literacy from Birth Program: Youth HELP Foundation funded United Way TCI in support of the Literacy from Birth initiative, which works with collaborating organizations including Learn and Lead Education Center and TCI Hospitals to make books available to parents and encourage reading to children from an early age. The program has provided 700 books to parents who were encouraged and supported in reading to their children from birth in the hospital. Total program expense was $1,560, including a $1,500 grant to United Way TCI.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 3
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 3.2%; rating input score 3
  • Program expense ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 4

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.71; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -36.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 3.2% of revenue deployed · 3.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.